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• reduce inflammation and blood clotting;

• protect against heart disease;

• suppress cancer cell development; and

• inhibit complications from diabetes.

Micronutrients, phytochemicals and zoochemicals also carry their own
messages and communicate other unique information to the body.

• Some tell the body to boost our own natural

antioxidant defense systems.

• Others help our antioxidant defense systems do their job.

• Some tell the body to make enzymes that devour cancer.

• Others attack cancer directly.

• Some stick around in our intestines and protect us

from damaging compounds.

• Others bind the damaging compounds and carry
them out of the body.

Phyto- and zoochemicals don’t provide “fuel”. Which means that the

“food as fuel” story leaves them out. Needless to say, food certainly is so
much more than fuel. This may be one reason why micronutrient deficiencies

are extremely common. When we only think of food as fuel, it’s easy to forget

that we’re eating for other reasons too.

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